NiHo_202842
Mar 01, 2016Cirrostratus
Private key password location?
Hello,
I am currently looking at the option to store our private keys encrypted on the bigip.
But for this to be beneficial of any kind, I would need to know how and where the bigip stores the p...
- Mar 01, 2016
It's stored in LTM config.
Check the BigIP conf backup file
. Search for the relevant private key or ssl profile object. The password/passphrase itself should be visible as MD5-salt hash./config/bigip.conf
If you initially encrypted your private keys on BigIP appliance, it's recommended to eliminate bash history since the commands you executed (incl. the password itself) will be in plain-text. You can delete bash history by issuing command
.rm ~/.bash_history